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Analytic calculation of dynamical friction for Plummer sphere in ultralight dark matter

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2025-11-21 v2

Abstract

The dynamical friction force acting on a spatially extended probe (globular clusters and dwarf galaxies) moving in the environment of ultralight bosonic dark matter in the state of the Bose-Einstein condensate is determined. Modeling the probe as a Plumer sphere of radius lpl_p, the radial and tangential components of the dynamic friction force are found in an analytic form, which reduce in the limit lp0l_p \to 0 to the corresponding analytic expressions obtained in the literature in the case of a point probe. The dependence of the dynamical friction force on boson particle mass mm was analyzed and found to be non-monotonous in the interval 1023102110^{-23} - 10^{-21}eV.

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@article{arxiv.2504.06448,
  title  = {Analytic calculation of dynamical friction for Plummer sphere in ultralight dark matter},
  author = {O. V. Barabash and T. V. Gorkavenko and V. M. Gorkavenko and O. M. Teslyk and N. S. Yakovenko and A. O. Zaporozhchenko and E. V. Gorbar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.06448},
  year   = {2025}
}

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15 pages, 2 figures